My Story

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Hello and Welcome!

My name is Allison W. Freedman, and I am the owner and founder of Arrange Wander Focus. I am a photo management expert, Certified Professional Photo Organizer with the global organization The Photo Managers of which I also sit on the Board, and a Privacy Advocate. I advise my clients on digital photo organizing and print photo organizing. I offer full service photo management, scanning with professional camera equipment, slideshows, photo books, and more.

I started this business in 2021 as a way to combine my passion for organizing, photography, and helping others share and tell their stories.

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Your Trusted Guide

Arrange Wander Focus is a very personal business.

It requires you to trust me with your most precious and private memories, so you should know who I am.

Here’s a bit about my journey and how I got here:

My Journey

I look different depending on where you find me.

And which lens you use. But I’m the same person.

That’s the beauty of the photograph.

A woman with braided hair, wearing sunglasses, smiling and laughing outdoors in a rocky desert landscape during sunset.

Vacation Me.

A woman with long light brown hair, wearing glasses, a black blazer, a purple blouse, and blue jeans, smiling and sitting on a rock in a wooded park with trees and sunlight in the background.

Today Me.

A woman with long, wavy brown hair and a bright smile, wearing a black sweater over a white collared shirt, accessorized with a long necklace, standing against a plain light background.

Lawyer Me.

I took a circuitous route to get here. My career path went something like this:

I attended college in Maine, majoring in biology and anthropology. I worked at the museum on campus assisting with the collections and giving tours to the public. I spent a lot of my time there off in the woods, and studied abroad in Australia.

I attended college in Maine, majoring in biology and anthropology. I worked at the museum on campus assisting with the collections and giving tours to the public. I spent a lot of my time there off in the woods, and studied abroad in Australia.

I was a volunteer park ranger at Grand Canyon National Park, leading visitors on talks and tours, and helped out on occasional rescue missions for those tourists who just had to peer over the edge. This was followed by a stint at the Point Reyes Bird

I was a volunteer park ranger at Grand Canyon National Park, leading visitors on talks and tours, and helped out on occasional rescue missions for those tourists who just had to peer over the edge. This was followed by a stint at the Point Reyes Bird Observatory in California where I studied migrating and nesting birds in their native habitat. I love being outside and working with people (and birds!).

Following my time with the birds I went on to earn a Master’s Degree in anthropology. My work focused on American Indian legal water rights for a local tribe, plowing through box upon box of old documents and photographs to make sense of the tribe’s

Following my time with the birds I went on to earn a Master’s Degree in anthropology. My work focused on American Indian legal water rights for a local tribe, plowing through box upon box of old documents and photographs to make sense of the tribe’s relationship to the water, land, and local government. I completed my Master’s degree and switched to law. Say what? It’s a good story for another time. During this time I met my husband and we married in the mountains of Utah.

After earning my J.D., we moved to Chicago, had two kids, adopted a rescue dog, and I was an associate and then a partner at a law firm for 17 years. I enjoyed it, learned a lot – particularly about organizing vast amounts of details, papers, and inf

After earning my J.D., we moved to Chicago, had two kids, adopted a rescue dog, and I was an associate and then a partner at a law firm for 17 years. I enjoyed it, learned a lot – particularly about organizing vast amounts of details, papers, and information to repackage them into a coherent story. I worked with some wonderful people, have crazy stories about trial and all-nighters, learned a lot about many arcane subjects - but it wasn’t my passion. I left my law firm at the end of 2019 to pursue Arrange Wander Focus.

I learned different things from every one of these experiences, and have rolled it all up into Arrange Wander Focus. This business allows me to combine my love of organizing, photography, and helping others share and tell their stories.

Let’s get started, today.

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